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Roberts, Cynthia – Journal of Leadership Education, 2013
Social capital, an important mechanism for the creation and maintenance of healthy organizational life, may be developed through initiatives such as leadership development as effective leadership development not only enhances individual effectiveness, but serves to build relationships, coordinate actions, and extend and strengthen the social…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Leadership Training, Social Networks, Health Services
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LeBlanc, Sheila; London, Chad; Huisman, Jeroen – Tertiary Education and Management, 2013
This article provides a detailed description and analysis of how one Canadian institution used groups of department heads as change agents to address their most acute department head role tensions. It is demonstrated that this institution's change initiative aligned very closely to the recommendations proposed, in both the literature pertaining to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Development, Foreign Countries, Change Agents
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Ravenscroft, A.; Schmidt, A.; Cook, J.; Bradley, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Formative Evaluation, Methods, Organizational Development
Theodos, Brett; Pergamit, Michael R.; Edelstein, Sara; George, Taz; Freiman, Lesley – Urban Institute, 2014
This report presents baseline and process study findings of an evaluation of the Urban Alliance high school internship program, which provides training, mentoring, and work experience to high school seniors from distressed communities in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, and Chicago. The report, which focuses on the program's…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Internship Programs
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Hannay, Lynne M.; Earl, Lorna – Journal of Educational Change, 2012
In a recent publication, Senge ("All systems go: the change imperative for whole system reform." Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, 2010, x) stated "at no time in history has there been a more powerful need for a new vision of the purpose of education." Increasingly citizens, academics and practitioners are calling for radical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Interviews, Change Strategies
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Roberts, Cynthia; Coghlan, David – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
Drawing on their experience in a Midwest healthcare system, the authors propose a model of leadership development through action learning that embraces "concentric collaboration" at its core. The present study suggests that the process of concentric collaboration can serve to strengthen the skills of the individual leader as well as…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Experiential Learning, Cooperation, Organizational Change
Capila, Anjali; Sachdev, Nilanksha – Online Submission, 2010
Communication is an important input in development. The role of communication is socio-economic and cultural development at national and international levels. Development is considered an important component of progress. The progressive change is described as alterations in awareness, motivation and participation of the individuals. With the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Communication (Thought Transfer), Program Effectiveness
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Kearney, Judith; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to: extend the concept of "The learning organization" to "The learning community," especially disadvantaged communities; demonstrate how leaders in a migrant community can achieve positive change at the personal, professional, team and community learning levels through participatory action learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Disadvantaged, Cultural Awareness
Kalman, Howard K. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
This study examined use of a strategic planning process to reinvent a corporate training department. The naturalistic case describes how the corporate training function gained credibility and influence with senior management, developed alignment with organizational goals, and began transforming the function into a performance improvement…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Advisory Committees, Industrial Training, Organizational Development
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Seezink, Audrey; Poell, Rob; Kirschner, Paul – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
This paper reports on a case study investigating learning outcomes at the individual and organisational level of a cross-institutional innovation project based on the SOAP approach. SOAP integrates "S"chooling of teachers, "O"rganisational development of schools, "A"ction- and development-oriented research, and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Educational Principles, Educational Innovation, Interviews
O'Connell, William R., Jr.; Moomaw, W. Edmund – 1975
This booklet represents a summary of a regional conference and is designed to serve as an introductory discussion of the use of the competency based education concept in general undergraduate programs. Emphasis is placed on essential conditions of competency, current factors affecting higher education, the scope and variety in competency-based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, History
Cohen, Barbara S. – 1977
A study was conducted to see what specific programs have been developed for employee career planning and development in order to help organizations interested in establishing career development programs learn what other organizations are doing, what types of programs are in effect and how they are managed. The study was based upon information…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Human Resources
Freeman, Evelyn B., Ed.; Peterson, Lee T., Ed. – 1982
This publication examines the process of networking, which is defined here as a framework to provide technical support between and among professionals. The process of networking is explored over a 7-year period as it served directors of the Midwest Teacher Corps, one of 12 networks established on a geographical basis by the Teacher Corps Program,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Lathrop, Robert L. – 1973
This brief report of remarks of a three-day workshop in career education describes the workshop agenda, activities, and projects underway in Florida and gives a list of objectives for grades K-6 through post secondary education. A master plan for career education in Brevard County, with a planning and implementation checklist, is followed by…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Education, Consultants, Educational Development
Thomas, Alan M.; Diamond, Naomi – 1973
One of a series of papers devoted to new ideas in education, this study reflects on the question of educational change. Specifically, changes in secondary education in Canada which appear relevant to the emergence of operating systems of continuing education are described. The first part of the study examines the principles of educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Change, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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